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| DATE | 2003-07-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl, Pattern Matching and Delete
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BTW - it sounds like a problem with the pattern
$ is a speacial char which needs to be \ and remember the variables are
interpolated FIRST unless it's a string literal or a single quoted string
Ruben
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:27:31AM -0400, joev_nylxs-at-pipeline.com wrote:
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> here's my problem:
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> I have a scalar variable that I need to strip out some stuff before it prints the html. I tried s/PATTERN// and this matches the pattern but does not remove it or replace it with "nothing." I've also tried s/PATTERN//d which if I understand this is suppose to delete the matched pattern if it was not replaced. That didn't work either. Is there an efficient way of doing this?
>
> thanks
> Joe
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